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Rollins signs on to run Huckabee campaign
Boston Globe ^ | 12/14/07 | Foon Rhee

Posted on 12/14/2007 7:20:26 AM PST by pissant

Mike Huckabee, whose rise in the polls hadn't been matched by a surge in his campaign apparatus, is about to get some major help on that front.

The HiIl and CNN are reporting on their websites today that Ed Rollins, the mastermind of Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide reelection and of Ross Perot's independent bid in 1992, will sign on as Huckabee's national campaign chairman.

The move is expected to be announced at a press conference this afternoon in Concord, N.H.

Rollins, a veteran Republican strategist, told CNN that he has been out of the game, but became more and more impressed with Huckabee and decided to make this his last campaign. Huckabee has overtaken Mitt Romney in the polls in Iowa and has surged to second in national polls behind Rudy Giuliani.

"The struggle now is to take it beyond Iowa and go nationally, and what you have is a growing candidacy, and I think I can help," Rollins told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


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Rollins, you picked a dud.
1 posted on 12/14/2007 7:20:27 AM PST by pissant
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To: Eric Blair 2084; flashbunny; NeoCaveman; SoConPubbie; Esther Ruth; pissant; pandoraou812; ...
Huckster Ping.

Dumond case revisited - A reminder of Huckabee's role in his freedom

2 posted on 12/14/2007 7:22:25 AM PST by OB1kNOb (Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He is THE true conservative candidate.)
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To: pissant

Rollins is a DUD.


3 posted on 12/14/2007 7:22:59 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: pissant
I thought it was about Henry Rollins.


4 posted on 12/14/2007 7:23:50 AM PST by Perdogg (Elections have consequences)
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To: pissant

I am going to have to get back on my indigestion medication.

I have a new illness “huckayuck”.


5 posted on 12/14/2007 7:24:19 AM PST by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: Perdogg
I thought it might be this guy...


6 posted on 12/14/2007 7:25:19 AM PST by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: pissant

Ed Rollins (born March 19, 1943).

Huh, I expected him to be much older.


7 posted on 12/14/2007 7:25:48 AM PST by donna (...gay couples raising kids. That's the American way... -Mitt Romney)
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To: pissant

I’m getting sick of all the Huckstrubating going on.


8 posted on 12/14/2007 7:26:12 AM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: Ann Archy

His calim to fame was Reagan’s re-election. Reagan could have had a turnip for campaign manager and still crushed Mondale.


9 posted on 12/14/2007 7:26:44 AM PST by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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Rollins took the only job offer available.

And Huckabee took the only ‘name’ willing to sign on.

A match made in political mediocrity ‘heaven’ if ever there was one.


10 posted on 12/14/2007 7:27:04 AM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: Perdogg

Then Huck’s Campaign Theme Song would be “Liar.”


11 posted on 12/14/2007 7:27:23 AM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: cripplecreek

huckster is a putrid liberal... his very name disgusts me.

LLS


12 posted on 12/14/2007 7:27:53 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims and vote Fred!)
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To: pissant

Huck just got his Rove.


13 posted on 12/14/2007 7:29:23 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: dfwgator

Here you go. “Liar video”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrd_jZJxkg

Now somebody needs to make a huckster vid with the rollins music.


14 posted on 12/14/2007 7:30:28 AM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: pissant

Just another pundit who never cared if the borders were secure.


15 posted on 12/14/2007 7:31:47 AM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: Perdogg

Isn’t Ed Rollins the lead singer of “Collective Soul?”


16 posted on 12/14/2007 7:33:35 AM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: pissant

The Chamber of Commerce must be behind Huckabee, since he is the candidate of continuing illegal slave labor.


17 posted on 12/14/2007 7:34:05 AM PST by montag813
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Ed Rollins, the mastermind of Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide reelection and of Ross Perot's independent bid in 1992,

So he helped a Clinton get elected. Is he looking to repeat that?

18 posted on 12/14/2007 7:34:38 AM PST by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
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To: pissant

That’s who I was hoping for - the “Saxophone Colossus”


19 posted on 12/14/2007 7:35:42 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: dfwgator

That’s Ed Roland.


20 posted on 12/14/2007 7:36:50 AM PST by RockinRight (Fred Thompson spells gravitas B-A-L-L-S-O-F-S-T-E-E-L.)
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